Lenovo u530 + GTX 960 + Exp Gdc Beast v8 mpcie version +Windows 10 [Nikolas]

[Nikolas]

Hi there, I have been trying to make my setup work for the last 3 days with no luck, First let me show you my setup

 

Laptop: Lenovo u530, Windows 10, have iGpu and dGpu

adapter: exp gdc beast v8 mpcie version

eGpu: gigabyte GTX 960 2g

psu: Corsair cx500

+external screen connected directly to eGpu

 

The first thing I did is to setup all the things and plug in the exp gdc to my mpcie slot that was occupied by my wireless card. Booting up my laptop results in black screen and trying to change the PTD delay to 7 and 15 s doesn't help. Plugging in the exp gdc after the laptop is booted up results that the eGpu not detected. I then realized that this was a whitelist problem, so  I tried to hotplug the mpcie while the laptop is in sleep. Now the eGpu is detected but with error 31. This was fixed by simply installing the right driver. After restarting my laptop, now alll my GPU are recognized by device manager. But now my eGpu have error 12 on it.

 

I tried to fix this by disabling my dGpu by changing the display setup in BIOS into UMA only. This first looks like a miracle. EVERYTHING seems to works perfectly. my eGpu is now recognized with no error, my external monitor now have a picture that is mirroring my main screen. nVidia experience and nVidia setup shows that my Gpu is only my iGpu and eGpu. I then tried to run benchmark test....... 0.9 fps...... my eGpu is there but not doing any work. I tried tweaking with the nVidia setup thinking that it's just a setup error, but still no luck. After that I tried tweaking with the display setup. Everything crashed and now I have error 43 for both my iGpu and eGpu. Looking up this forum, I found that I should uninstall all my driver using DDU and reinstalling it with a clean driver. Still error 43. I tried changing back my display setup in BIOS back to discrete and uninstall all driver again using DDU, after installing a clean driver, I'm now back with error 12. Right now I have no idea what to do. Will setup 1.3 fix my problem? or should I try do something else?

 

please help, Thank you for reading this,

Nikolas